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Why Is Technology Not Producing Productivity Improvements?

The Horizons Tracker

His comment reflected frustration that despite the considerable hype around the digital technologies of the day, productivity stats were barely moving. It was widely believed that this was largely a case of organizations attempting to introduce new technologies to processes that were designed very much with the old ways of working in mind.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. Leading a global workforce of more than 840,000 people is not for the faint of heart.

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Companies Invest In Automation To Plug Gaps In An Aging Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

It might seem intuitive to assume that technology is adopted based primarily on the merits of the technology and its impact on things like productivity. The MIT research examines a range of industry, demographic, and technological data from the 1990s through to the mid-2010s. Encouraging automation.

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Is The Golden Era Of Tech Clusters On The Wane?

The Horizons Tracker

The rise of the information technology industry has seen the emergence of a number of key tech hubs across the United States. Astoundingly, five of the six most valuable public companies in the world in 2020 were tech companies headquartered in San Francisco or Seattle. Winner takes all.

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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

In the context of our increasingly disrupted, globalizing, and multicultural world, leaders greatly appreciate the security and comfort of clear-cut strategic plans for the future. For example, consider Saraj, a technology startup founder. Overconfidence. To me, it was a clear example of groupthink, ignoring the elephant in the room.

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Driving Success through the Employee Experience

HR Digest

The world is rapidly changing—new technology, new competitors, new opportunities— and with it comes new ideas and insights. What skills do the global HR managers of the future need to acquire? And next year, we’re exploring how we can take this program global. What do you see as the greatest leadership strength?

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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